Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 53 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 87 BCCrown Prince Fuling, later Emperor Zhao of Han, is named as Emperor Wu of Han’s successor and heir to the throne. Emperor Wu dies two days later.
- 1309Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
- 1329Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
- 1513Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
- The first English child born in Canada at Cuper’s Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
- Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
- Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
- Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
- Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.
- Hugh McGary Jr. establishes what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
- War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
- Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army butchers 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
- First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
- The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
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- Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of teetotalism by The Salvation Army.
- A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
- Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
- A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
- Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
- A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
- Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
- Bessarabia is ceded to the Kingdom of Romania.
- Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war’s first major Chinese victory over Japan.
- World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
- World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
- World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan’s ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
- The Second Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea is convened.
- Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
- Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom’s rail network.
